[pivo]

That was not my experience with Scala. Every library we used had its own DSL and that made the code really hard to read. Maybe things are different now, but I'll bet that was a lot of people's first experience with Scala. It's what turned me off to the language, even though I did like using the standard Scala library quite a bit.

Edit: It was two years ago so other than Lift and some SQL DSL I don't recall which libraries we were using. I do recall wishing I hadn't taken that job.

[nimbix]

My "favorite" part of Scala was half a dosen DB libraries each re-implementing SQL as a DSL.

[trailfox]

C# does that too. It's called LINQ and it's very popular.

[nimbix]

Are there a number of slightly different and incomplete variants of LINQ, like there are SQL DSLs in Scala? Because if not, then LINQ is "the right way" of doing this kind of thing. And if I remember correctly, LINQ is also useful outside of the DB domain, for things like filtering arrays and so forth.

I once read an article about how Java programmers can hold a conversation on the topic of upsides and downsides of multiple dependency injection containers while C# programmers only have one available and have nothing to say on this topic. That article concluded that having one "good enough" solution can often be better than having multiple slightly different and incomplete ones, even if each has its own strenghts, and I'd say the same is true when it comes to the C# LINQ vs. Scala SQL DSLs.

[trailfox]

C# has various options (see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671231/linq-nhibernate-al...)

The Scala equivalent is called Slick, and it's the only SQL DSL that approaching anything near widespread use. I fail to see how incomplete projects on GitHub which happen to be written in Scala are relevent to this discussion.

[dennisgorelik]

It's NOT called LINQ in C#.

You are probably referring to "LINQ to SQL" which is different and significantly less popular technology than LINQ.

[AKarimi]

Or "LINQ to EF" which you can suppose it stable just when working with "MS SQL Server".

[trailfox]

That's pretty odd. What libraries were you using?